Alexander Pruss's Blog

Here is my favorite version of the “existence is not a property” objection to Anselm’s first ontological argument. It makes no sense to tal...

Consider this very simple formulation of Anselm's first argument: (Premise) A maximally great being exists in my mind. (Pr...

I've never heard the following version of the ontological argument put quite in this way, though there may be things in Anselm an...

Continuing my project of reading my hitherto unread reading assigned for the medieval comp, I've been reading Anselm's rep...

St. Anselm believes that the least of our sins puts us in an infinite debt to God and is infinitely bad. Anselm's own argum...